Icon of Mexican Cuisine: Oaxacan Mole with Chef Gino Garcia

Culinary Arts

Icon of Mexican Cuisine: Oaxacan Mole with Chef Gino Garcia

Cookbook author and mole master Gino Garcia and makes a full feast starring Mole Coloradito.

Member

$125.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Guest

$148.00 (any noted materials fee included)

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Meeting Times
  1. Sun, 3/23/2025 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Sun, 3/23/2025

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Type:
Class, No Prerequisite

Location:
Culinary Arts & Great Room

Interests:
Cooking

About

Join cookbook author and mole master Gino Garcia and make one of the most popular mole versions from Oaxaca – Mole Coloradito. Enjoy it with a full feast alongside chicken, beans, rice, and corn tortillas. 

We will work in groups to tackle one of the more complex dishes in Mexican gastronomy, Mole Coloradito, which features over 25 ingredients. Through this process, learn about the cooking techniques that go into this iconic dish and how they can be applied to make nearly any Mexican mole. 

Mole as a food category tells an incredibly rich, complicated, and delicious story about Mexican gastronomy over many centuries, the social, cultural, and political influences that went into making it known as one of Mexico’s most recognizable dishes. 

I have taught classes on moles from around Mexico. Together we will   break down this complex dish into easily understandable steps.  . 

On the menu:

Mole Coloradito alongside braised chicken. Students will shape and cook their own corn tortillas to sop up every last drop of mole on their plates. Gino will prepare Arroz Rojo and Frijoles de Olla ahead of time, so that students have the traditional side dishes that make mole a complete meal. 

BARN’s kitchen facility regularly uses ingredients known to the FDA as major allergens. This class will use: milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans.

 

Allergies and dietary restrictions

BARN's Kitchen is not allergen-free. If you have allergies or dietary restrictions, each time you register for a Culinary Arts class, please check with the studio by filling out this form to see if your restrictions can be accommodated. We can't guarantee to fulfill your request but please ask! Because allergies and dietary restrictions change over time, we don't store your allergy/dietary restriction information.

Materials

A $25 materials fee, included in the price of the class, covers all ingredients. 

Class Policies

Covered shoes and hair ties, please.

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Instructors or Guides

Gino Garcia

Gino is a trained chef, culinary educator, and author of Disney Pixar’s Coco: The Official Cookbook. Gino’s style of cooking is inspired by his familial roots in Mexico and his upbringing in the agricultural regions of California’s Central Valley. Currently based out of Seattle, he enjoys hosting pop-up events celebrating regional cuisines of Mexico and Latin America, teaching cooking classes, and building community through food and storytelling. When he’s not teaching, he is busy spreading the gospel of his chef-created, glitter-infused chile salt brand, Salecito, which features lesser-known Mexican ingredients and flavor combinations that glam up snacks and beverages.
Before entering the cooking world, Gino worked as a consultant in the public health sector focusing on issues related to improved nutrition, food access, healthcare, and disease prevention in immigrant and BIPOC communities.

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